Well here we are, Lauren and Teddy up on the A2Z Scraplets blog today with a card to give you inspiration and ideas!!! What a fantastic challenge weekend we had over Easter with our lovely Karyn Watton. Watch out, I am sure there will be more coming along for you all!!

So now to the card, you say! Yes yes here it is 🙂 This card is my DT Inspiration for A2Z Scraplets and is inspired by the Challenge (stamping and a handmade embellishment) over at Show Us Your Stuff!!

What a wonderful Autumn day it is, cool morning, very nice mid 20’s through the day and a slight breeze and a bit of cloud. Just my type of day.

So we have another of the A2Z Scraplets Easter Challenge Weekend cards today

On this card I have used a pretty designer paper and lightly sponged in pink all over and brown as an accent with the new Hexagon Stencil from A2Z Scraplets. The A2Z Scraplets has been left left as is, the lovely black that it comes. The gorgeous rickrack and flowers from my stash.

Teddy and I still have more cards to show you from the Easter Weekend craftathon we did. So this is Challenge 7 and one of our favourites.

A 5×5 inch card with a front panel of Kaisercraft designer paper from the 75 cents range. The A2Z Scraplet is Brickwork, painted black. Memory Box Die Catalina Wreath (one of my favourites), with some decorated tags and strips of paper from my stash. The A2Z Scraplets is embossed with Stampendous Shabby White Embossing Powder. Finishing off with flowers from I Am Roses.

Teddy and I played in the A2Z Easter Challenges on the weekend and it was fantastic, we crafted up a storm and made 9 cards, yes that’s right 9 cards, more than we have made in the last 3 months. We had such an awesome time.

So we will show you the first one today:)

This card is 6″x5″ and the panel on the front is misted with a handmade pearl and ink solution. Kaisercraft Lacy Doily is laid on next and a double row of lace with seam binding over the top. The A2Z Scraplets dressform is embossed with Stampendous Embossing Powder Shabby White for the dress bodice and white EP for the shoulders, the base is painted with Ranger Distress Paint Dusty Concord and the skirt made from lace and seam binding. Stamp is from My Mind’s Eye set The Sweetest Thing.

This card will be entered into the White with One Challenge on the blog White…with 1

Well how lucky are you to have Lauren and Teddy up on the blog today?? What an exciting week it has been with the launch of our very first Facebook A2Z Papercraft Challenge, so today we thought we would show you the cards Teddy made to inspire you, it is after all an Inspiration Challenge for March. This is the picture to give the inspiration.

Now doesn’t that picture give you great ideas of boys and play and boats and sand and beaches and pennants and blue and stripes and so much more!!!

So here is the first thought, a lighthouse on the headland surrounded by crashing waves.

The background at the top is done with white ink in a Sizzix Embossing Folder from a due pack from Tim Holtz and I believe it is called rays, the bottom section is wax resist done with scrunched wax paper ironed onto glossy white cardstock and then inked with blue. Hint: the more you scrunch, the smaller the pattern and more wax on your paper.

The next inspiration came from the canvas of beach scene on the right hand wall, look at those gorgeous beach boxes on it. So cute.

This one is a beach house using a Kaszazz Stamp coloured with Ranger Perfect Pearls (love using these to make shimmer paints, keep them in the palette and let them dry and they work the same as watercolour paints.

Birthday Boy is from the A2Z Scraplets – Birthday Set 1 Ebony and it is covered with a lovely thick coat of Ranger Glossy Accents, love this stuff because it keeps its dimension and dries so thick.

This next card is one Teddy has made several times, it is such a fun card and inspired by the blue teddy sitting on the cabin of the big boat toybox.

It is an uneven gatefold card and kept closed by those lovely turn mounts. The Teddies are stamped in blue on vellum and then layered on navy then white. Little paw prints are stamped randomly over the card front.

We are loving these A2Z Scraplets Arrow Words in the February Release, they are just gorgeous and there are so many to choose from with colours available too!!! This one has been left the colour as is and coated with Ranger Glossy Accents. (I need buckets of that stuff) 🙂

The last card is a masculine card (sometimes so hard for us to do) and it is inspired by the overall nautical and ‘boaty’ feel to the picture, and we turned it to a very ‘aged’ project.

This card has lots of DTP edging with Ranger Distress Ink Walnut Stain and the curled corners add to the overall ‘old’ look to the card. Backgrounds are stamped with Lucy’s Stamps Aged Cube and Rabbit Proof Fence (the text), edges torn or distressed, inked and curled. The Happy Birthday is a Stamp-It Australia greeting.

Teddy and I have been doing some crafting and what is better we have been doing some blogging. Wet Spring here, bad hailstorms on Thursday and showers ever since, night time mostly, very heavy rain.

So we made you a card.

This card was made for a card swap on Willow’s Card Swaps on Facebook, it is an Aussie only site, so saves postage 🙂

My usual 5″x5″ square card that is to a sketch and so simple. I have used washi tape and one of my favourite stamps by Lucy, (Kaszazz these days) I also used to washi tape to make it fit into a challenge on the Aussie Creative Crafts and Challenges site that I admin on (Teddy is the creative director). The Challenge is Double Up or Two of a Kind, (2 types washi tape) How clever is that??

Well we hope you like it, so much fun sometimes to make something totally different 🙂